Belal Ehsan Baaquie - Quantum Computers: Theory and Algorithms

We would like to acknowledge and express our thanks to many outstanding researchers in the field of quantum computing.

We would like to thank our respective families for their unflagging support and encouragement, without which this book could not have been written.

One of us (BEB) would like to thank George Zweig, Gerald Gerry Neugerbauer, Clifford M. Will, Jon Mathews, Jeffrey E. Mandula, David Mermin, David Ashcroft and Kurt Gottfried for shaping my views on quantum mechanics. He would also like to thank M. Mahmudul Karim, Behzad Mansouri and Frederick H. Willeboordse for many stimulating discussions on computation and algorithms. He had the privilege of having enlightening discussions on quantum mechanics with peerless scholars and visionaries Richard P. Feynman and Kenneth G. Wilson, for which he is eternally indebted to them.

The other author (KLC) would like to thank Luigi Amico, Berge Englert, Jiangfeng Du, Thomas Durt, Artur Ekert, Rosario Fazio, Fan Heng, David Hutchinson, Myungshik Kim, Jose Ignacio Latorre, Aiqun Liu, Christian Miniatura, Bill Munro, C. H. Oh, Xiangbin Wang, Vlatko Vedral, Marek Zukowski and many others for their constant encouragement and advice. He has also benefited a lot from numerous stimulating discussions with many of his current and past students, post-doctoral fellows and group members (A partial list follows: Davit Aghamalyan, Joonwoo Bae, Kishor Bharti, Shaohen Chew, Andy Chia, Keng Wah Choo, Tobias Haug, Masahito Hayashi, Hermanni Heimonen, Mingxia Huo, Alexander Hue, Kelvin Koor, Thiha Kyaw, Elica Kyoseva, Chee Kong Lee, Ying Li, Cao Lin, Jonathan Lau, Wei Luo, Kian Hwee Lim, David A. Herrera-Mart, Dariel Mok, Ewan Munro, Tiong Eng Ng, Wei Nie, Yuan Shen, Harshank Shrotriya, Sivakumar M. Maniam, Sai Vinjanampathy, Lingxiao Wan, Gong Zhang, Hui Zhang, Zisheng Wang, Janus H. Wesenberg and so forth).